Lawrence Tang > Recent Status Updates

been close-reading and annotating maybe a bit more than i should but she is spitting. kinda hard to follow some parts though with the amount she name drops and just assumes the reader to be familiar with works

finished the john wayne and started the joan baez story

first short story down

listening to the audiobook. this book feels very much stylistically in line with bevin’s previous work jakarta method and its baller asf

it’s funny how orwell like lowkey orientalizes the spanish??? dawg is like: “these damn spaniards can’t do ANYTHING but i fw them” every other sentence

it’s so hard to imagine what las ramblas and plaça d’espanya must have looked like in Orwell’s time

phenomenal. in awe of the way achebe weaves together personal anecdotes and historical context to create such a compelling narrative. historicize historicize historicize

listening to it as an audiobook on spotify so i’m probably only getting ~80% of what i normally would but I find his analysis on cloud capitalism and 08 quite compelling

i like the connection to tourism as a spectacle

Was. bit confused in the beginning how klein was going to tie together so many seemingly disparate anecdotes but it’s a banger so far

loved the prologue

great public transportation reading to freak out

exquisite read so far. searching dreaming associating for a third university that “is not a decolonized university but a decolonizing one.”

it’s so good i love it

YEA READING WOOO